{"id":4475,"date":"2021-06-18T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:30:30","slug":"larsen-motorsports-interns-design-a-jet-dragster-with-nx-and-the-digital-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/larsen-motorsports-interns-design-a-jet-dragster-with-nx-and-the-digital-twin\/","title":{"rendered":"Larsen Motorsports interns design a jet dragster with NX and the Digital Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4476\" width=\"840\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX-900x899.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/LarsenMotorsportsusingNX.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the NX team donated software to Larsen Motorsports (LMS) for its affiliation with Florida Tech. After receiving the software, LMS enlisted Northrop Grumman Corp. mentors to help interns learn, implement and experiment with it on what LMS is know best: jet dragsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoing it yourself, seeing what works, seeing what doesn\u2019t work and kind of being a little creative with some stuff\u2014it really helps learn the software,\u201d says Liam Shaw, a mechanical engineering student who has been interning at LMS for one semester. \u201cThere are a bunch of ways that you can do it, and it\u2019s really just about making sure that you get it as accurate as possible while doing it in the fewest steps possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about this partnership and how these students reverse engineer the current jet dragster<a href=\"https:\/\/news.fit.edu\/engineering\/larsen-motorsports-builds-next-generation-jet-dragster-using-digital-twin-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, the NX team donated software to Larsen Motorsports (LMS) for its affiliation with Florida Tech. 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